We have developed a change agenda for animals, which outlines 100 immediate steps the Obama Administration can take to help animals--including millions of pets, farm animals, laboratory animals, and wildlife. With your help, we can ensure the...

"We have developed a change agenda for animals, which outlines 100 immediate steps the Obama Administration can take to help animals--including millions of pets, farm animals, laboratory animals, and wildlife. With your help, we can ensure the Administ

THE identity of the first puppy -- the one that the Washington press corps has been yelping about for months, the one President Barack Obama has seemed to delight in dropping hints about -- has leaked. This despite White House efforts to delay the news

In the large animal category of former White House residents, the line blurs between pet, work or farm animal, and zoo or menagerie denizen. In the working or farm category we see cows (W.H. Harrison, Hayes, Taft), pigs, (Lincoln, Grant), sheep (Madison,

White House Dogs Have Served as Companions, Playmates, Publicity Props
Barack Obama was just minutes into his speech Tuesday to accept the presidency of the United States when he vowed to make good on a very important campaign promise -- to get his daugh

The North Atlantic right whale is considered one of the most endangered species on Earth, with a population estimated at about 300 animals, according to studies by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Now we learn that officials in the

White House officials for more than a year have blocked a rule aimed at protecting endangered North Atlantic right whales by challenging the findings of government scientists, according to documents obtained by the Union of Concerned Scientists.

It might be scant reward when so many of their brethren will fall, but two turkeys are heading to Disney World to live out their days in peace. President Bush pardoned the two birds on Tuesday in the annual tradition that dates back to the Truman adms.